"All soils are not fertile."
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"Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil."
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"We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us."
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"It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil."
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"Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted."
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"The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil."
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"The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in."
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"But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more."
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"Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil."
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"Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment."
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"Saints can spring from any soil."
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"To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty."
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"I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war."
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